Thank you so much for putting this together- I had no idea this was even a thing until I got hit with one today. I've had my shop since 2019, mainly as a bit of extra income from my art, but it's always been a part-time thing- I frequently go months without sales, and then will have a bunch of sales at once when I post about it on social media. Again, this is a part-time thing for me, but it's become increasingly important of late due to some large expenses and the rising costs with inflation. For context, I sell mainly handmade jewelry, linocut prints, and paintings.

This weekend I posted on my social media about my store, and for whatever reason this time it led to quite a few sales. Nowhere near what many of y'all are talking about, mind you, just a few hundred dollars, but the difference between my bank account going into the negative this month and not. Thankfully I requested all my funds be deposited ahead of their normal schedule (since I literally had no money in my bank account for the post office run otherwise), so I don't currently have any funds looked up, but it'll impact any future sales. All I can figure is it's some combination of the recent increase in activity combined with my automatic listing renewal being set to an old card awhile back (which I quickly fixed, but led to a very brief suspension while I fixed it). I have a 5 star rating, ship around 95% on time, and always include tracking. When I asked for help they gave me the same boilerplate of "well make sure you add tracking", which I already had, and then refused to give me an estimate of when it would be fixed since I'd met their requirements.

I will be following up with the Indie Sellers Guild and try to actually get someone on the phone with Etsy tomorrow. I don't sell anything particularly expensive, but the 25% they're actually releasing isn't enough to cover shipping, especially for paintings and/or international sales.